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Prenatal sugar consumption and later life health: Evidence from post-wartime rationing and polygenic scores (with Gerard van den Berg and Adele Wang)

• A mother’s diet in pregnancy supports her child for life, rationing study shows (2023)

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Complementarity in skill production: Evidence from genetic endowments and birth order (with Dilnoza Muslimova, Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld, and Fleur Meddens)

• Genes and upbringing both matter for educational success. 2021
• What is driving educational attainment: nature, nurture, or both? Backbone Magazine, Research in a nutshell

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Social Science Genetics (in general)

• Contributed to “Genomics Beyond Health“, Government Office for Science, January 2022
• Gene-environment interplay: A revolution for social science research? Research Outreach, November 2021 (with Hans van Kippersluis and Pietro Biroli)
• Generation Virus. CEPS magazine, Winter 2020.

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The Response to Nutritional Labels: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment. Journal of Health Economics, (with Eleonora Fichera)

• “Nutrition labelling is improving nation’s diet – new study”; University of Bath
• “New study shows nutrition labelling is improving nation’s diet”; University of Bristol
• “Nutrition labelling helps individuals choose healthier foods” PolicyBristol

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Getting a Healthy Start? The effectiveness of targeted benefits for improving dietary choices. Journal of Health Economics (with Rachel Griffith and Sarah Smith)

• The Independent: How voucher scheme improved diets (p.5)
• “Welfare Foods – a consultation on meeting the needs of children and families in Scotland” (with Patricia Lucas)

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Alcohol Exposure In Utero and Child Academic Achievement. 2014. The Economic Journal (with George Wehby, Sarah Lewis, and Luisa Zuccolo)

• VoxEU.org: Drinking during pregnancy and children’s test scores
• RES Media Briefing: Drinking during pregnancy: New genetics-based evidence of the damage to children’s educational outcomes

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The Demand for Cigarettes as Derived from the Demand for Weight Control. 2015. Health Economics (with John Cawley and Davide Dragone)

• Freakonomics Blog: Cigarettes as Weight Control
• The Economist: Weight Watchers: Bad news for advocates of higher cigarette Taxes
• ESRC Features: Cutting the smoking habit
• Cornell Chronicle: Teens who feel ‘too fat’ light up cigarettes to slim down

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School Meal Crowd Out in the 1980s. 2013. Journal of Health Economics

• CMPO Blog: School meals and packed lunches – How important is government policy?
• PolicyBristol Blog: School meals and packed lunches – how important is government policy?

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Smarter Task Assignment or Greater Effort: What Makes a Difference In Team Performance? 2010. The Economic Journal (with Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Marisa Ratto, and Emma Tominey)

• VoxEU.org: On the use of high-powered incentives in the public sector

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Genetic Markers as Instrumental Variables. 2016. Journal of Health Economics (with George Davey Smith, Debbie Lawlor, Carol Propper and Frank Windmeijer)

• Nature: Children of the 90s: Coming of Age
• ESRC Press release: Obese kids as bright as thinner peers, covered in
  • Science Daily, the North Korea Times, com, The Sentinel, Science Codex, Newstrack India, the Kenya Star, the Cambodian Times, the Albuquerque Express, the Argentina Star, the Oman Observer, Medical News Today, the Times of India, US News
• ESRC Britain in 2010 Magazine: Body Weight Up, Test Results Down: Are Obesity and Poor School Performance Directly Related?
• ALSPAC Social Science Research Newletter: Child Fat Mass and Educational Attainment?
• Research in Public Policy, Bulletin of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation: Obesity and Children’s Exam Results
• Research in Public Policy, Bulletin of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation: Genetic Information: Potential Uses for Economic and Social Research (with Neil Davies)
• Student Magazine Actuarial Sciences, Econometrics & Operations Research, Aenorm: Genetic Information: Potential Uses for Economics and Social Science Research (with Neil Davies and Frank Windmeijer)

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Maternal Employment and Overweight Children: Does Timing Matter? 2008. Health Economics

• Financial Times: When mums work, do kids get fat?
• The Daily Telegraph: How mother who works can lead to a fat teen
• The Guardian: Working mother linked to obese teens
• Daily Express: “Latchkey kids face increased risk of obesity”
• The Metro: “Working mums link to obesity”
• The Sun: “Doomed as fat at 5”
• Research in Public Policy, Bulletin of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation: Working Mums and Overweight Kids: Is there a Link?